DEFINITON OF TERMS
Seashore Parks refers to any public shore area delimited
Revised Forestry Code (P.D. No. 705)
Section 3. Definitions
a. Public Forest is the mass of lands of the public domain
which has not been the subject of the present system of
classification for the determination of which lands are
needed for forest purposes and which are not.
b. Permanent Forest or Forest Reserves refers to those
lands of the public domain which have been the subject of
the present system of classification and determined to be
needed for forest purposes.
c. Alienable and Disposable Lands refer to those lands of
the public domain which have been the subject of the pre-
sent system of classification and declared as not needed
for forest purposes.
d. Forest Lands include the public forest, the permanent
forest or forest reserves, and forest reservations.
e. Grazing Lands refers to that portion of the public domain
which has been set aside, in view of the suitability of its to-
pography and vegetation, for the raising of livestock.
f. Mineral Lands refer to those lands of the public domain
which have been classified as such by the Secretary of Nat-
ural Resources in accordance with prescribed and ap-
proved criteria, guidelines and procedure.
g. Forest Reservations refer to forest lands which have been
reserved the the President of the Philippines for any spe-
cific purpose or purposes.
h. National Park refers to a forest land reservation essen-
tially of primitive or wilderness character which has been
withdrawn from settlement or occupancy and set aside as
such exclusively to preserve the scenery, the natural and
historic objects and the wild animals or plants therein, and
to provide enjoyment of these features in such a manner
as will elave them unimpaired for future generations.
i. Game Refuge or Bird Sanctuary refers to a forest land des-
ignated for the protection of game animals, birds and fish
and closed to hunting and fishing in order that the excess
population may flow and restock surrounding areas.
j. Marine Parks refers to any off-shore area inhabited by
rare and unique species of marine flora and fauna.
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for outdoor recreation, sports fishing, water skiing and re-
lated healthful activities.
l. Watershed Reservation is a forest land reservation estab-
lished to protect or improve the conditions of the water
yield thereof or reduce sedimentation.
m. Watershed is a land area drained by a stream or fixed
body of water and its tributaries having a common outlet
for surface run-off.
n. Critical Watershed is a drainage area of a river system
supporting existing and proposed hydro-electric power and
irrigation works needing immediate rehabilitationa as it is
being subjected to a fast denudation causing accelerated
erosion and destructive floods. It is closed from logging un-
til it is fully rehabilitated.
o. Mangrove is a term applied to the type of forest occur-
ing on tidal flat along the sea coast, extending along
streams where the water is brackish.
p. Kaingin is a portion of the forest land, whether occupied
or not, which is subjected to shifting and/or permanent
slash-and-burn cultivation having little or no provision to
prevent soil erosion.
q. Forest Product means timber, pulpwoold, firewood, bark,
tree top, resin, gum, wood, oil, honey, beeswax, nipa, rat-
tan, or other forest growth such as grass,shrub, and flower-
ing plant, the associated water, fish, game, scenic, histori-
cal, recreational and geologic resources in forest lands.
r. Dipterocarp Forest is a forest dominated by trees of the
dipterocarp species, such as red lauan, tengile, tiaong,
white lauan, almon, bagtikan and mayapis of the Philippine
mahogany group, apitong and the yakals.
s. Pine Forest is a forest composed of the Benguet Pine in
the Mountain Provinces or the Mindoro pine in Mindoro
and Zambales provinces.
t. Industrial Tree Plantation is any tract of forest land pur-
posely and extensively planted to timber crops primarily to
supply the raw material requirements of existing or pro-
posed processing plants and related industries.
u. Tree Farm refers to any tract of forest land purposely and
extensively planted to trees of economic value for their
fruits, flowers, leaves, barks, or extratives, but not for the
wood thereof.
v. Multiple-use is the harmonized utilization of the the nu-
merous beneficial uses of the lad, soil, water, wildlife, rec-
reation value, grass and timber or forest lands.
w. Selective Logging means the systematic removal of the
mature, over-mature and defective trees insuch manner as
to leave adequate number and volume of healthy residual
treees of the desired species necessary to assure a future
crop of timber, and forest cover for the protection and con-
servation of soil and water.
x. Seed Tree System is a partial clearcutting with seed trees
left to regenerate the area.
y. Healthful Residual is a sound or slightly injured tree of
the commercial species left after logging.
z. Sustained-yield Management implies continous or peri-
odic production of forest products in a working unit with
the aid of achieving at the earliest practicable time an ap-
proximate balance between growth and harvest or use.
This is generally applied to the commercial timber re-
sources and is also applicable to the water, grass, wildlife,
and other renewable resources of the forest.
aa. Processing Plant is any mechanical set-up, machine or
combination of machine used for the processing of logs
and other forest raw materials into lumber, veneer, ply-
wood, wallboard, block-board, paper board, pulp, paper or
other fisnished wood products.
bb. Lease is a privilege granted by the State to a person to
occupy and possess, in consideration of a specified rental,
any forest land of the public domain in order to undertake
any outhorized activity therein.
cc. License is a privilege granted by the State to a person to
utilize forest resources as in any forest land, without any
right of occupation and possession over the same, to the
exclusion of others, or establish and operate a wood-pro-
cessing plant, or conduct any activity involving the utiliza-
tion of any forest resources.
dd. License Agreement is a privilege granted by the State to
a person to utilize forest resources within any forest land
with the right of possession and occupation thereof to the
exclusion of others, except the government, but with the
corresponding obligation to develop, protect and rehabili-
tate the same in accordance with the terms and conditions
set forth in said agreement.
ee. Permit is a short-term privilege or authority granted by
the State to a person utilize any limited forest resources or
undertake a limited activity with any forest land without
any right of occupation and possession therein.
ff. Annual Allowable Cut is the volume of materials,
whether of wood or other forest products, that is author-
ized to be cut regularly from the the forest.
gg. Cutting Cycle is the number of years between major
harvests in the same working unit and/or region, within a
rotation.
hh. Ecosystem means the ecological community considered
together with non-living factors and its environment as a
unit.
ii. Silviculture is the establishment, development reproduc-
tion and care of forest trees.
jj. Rationalization is the organization of a business or indus-
try using scientific business management principles and
simplified procedures to obtain greater efficiency of opera-
tion.
kk. Forest Officer means any official or employee of the Bu-
reau who, by the nature of his appointment or the function
of the position to which he is appointed, is delegated by
law or by competent authority to execute, implement or
enforce the provisions of this Code, other related laws, as
well as their implementing regulations.
ll. Primitive Tribe is a group of endemic tribe living primi-
tively as a distinct portion of a people from a common an-
cestor.
mm. Private RIght means or refers to titled rights of owner-
ship under existing laws, and in the case of primitive tribes,
to rights of possession existing at the time a license is
granted under this COde, which possession may include
places of abode and worship, burial grounds, and old clear-
ings, but excludes production forest inclusive of logged-
over areas, commerical forests and established plantations
of forest trees and trees of economic value.
nn. Person includes natural as well as juridical person